Again? Stage Play Adapted into a Visual Novel: Frontwing's Gekiron Gigi Giben Student Council Announced!

Frontwing and Bushiroad apparently haven't given up on adapting stage plays into visual novels.

Right on the heels of their new title COCORO's launch, they've swiftly unveiled another project—and this time the production staff is even more star-studded than their previous work Lilac!

Frontwing announced that the stage-play-to-visual-novel adaptation Gekiron Gigi Giben Student Council will release in early 2027, and the game's OP and Steam store page are now public.

Story Synopsis

The story takes place at Konodai High School, which upholds "autonomy and self-discipline." After student council president Sakurai Risa proposes "school uniform liberalization," a fierce debate engulfs the entire school.

Students with differing positions and personalities, each with their own motives, clash in verbal battles over school rules, the culture festival, and other issues; meanwhile, protagonist Hiayama Ryo, the vice president, will pursue his own romance amid this absurd campus debate.

An absurd debate centered on school rules, the culture festival, and school life gradually evolves into a youth ensemble comedy.

This work adapts two stage plays by Tomisaka Yu: "ナイゲン" and "いざ、生徒総会". The adaptation is handled by Kuwashima Yuichi and Asao Ei.

Game CG

Character design is handled by Fujima Takuya. As one of the original character designers for the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series, Fujima's refined and vivid art style gives this work an even stronger youthful campus atmosphere. SD illustrations are handled by LiO.

CAST

This work features a full 27 characters, all with voice acting. While that doesn't surpass Lilac's 33 characters, it's still a rather outrageous number.

Adapting a series of stage plays into a visual novel is inherently a massive challenge.

Stage plays feature huge casts, and the source material adapted here was even described as "a stage play with no background characters." The adaptation also has to reasonably arrange the storylines of so many characters—calling it a nightmare is no exaggeration.

Even with ample development time and full support in visuals and music, the previous work Lilac was still stretched thin in production, and ultimately failed to make much of a splash~

(Image from Lilac)

STAFF

Scenario: 桑島由一, 浅生詠

Character design: 藤真拓哉, LiO (SD original art)

Music: 安瀬聖, 藤間仁, 桑島由一 (OP lyrics)

Vocals: 阿部寿世

In short, this work is packed with content to the extreme, and the character designs and story are interesting enough—but sadly, raw firepower doesn't guarantee success.

As for whether Kuwashima Yuichi and Asao Ei can hold this work together and prove that adapting stage plays into visual novels is a viable path, those interested may want to wait and see.

Steam store page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5057250/